Community Physiotherapist

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS pension

Unsocial hours pay

27 days annual leave (pro rata)

NHS discounts

Staff Health and Wellbeing programme

Flexible working

Job summary

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Community Physiotherapist to join the Ipswich West Community Team on a full-time, fixed-term basis until 31 May 2027. You will be an experienced Band 6 Physiotherapist passionate about delivering high-quality care at patients' homes, and you will be co-located with nursing, social care and REACT teams to enable smooth patient progression.

You will work within a knowledgeable MDT, providing supervision to junior staff and engaging

Qualifications

• Experienced Band 6 Physiotherapist
• Passionate, committed and innovative in delivering high quality care

Responsibilities

• Provide high standard patient care in patients’ homes and hospital settings
• Facilitate seamless flow of care between hospital and community settings
• Provide supervision and support to junior staff

Skills

Physiotherapist

Band 6

Job description

An exciting opportunity for a Community Physiotherapist to join our team is available within the Ipswich West Community Team. The position is full time, fixed term until31.5.27 You should be an experienced Band 6 Physiotherapist who is passionate, committed, innovative, enthusiastic and highly motivate to delivering high quality care within patient's homes. We are fortunate enough to be co-located with our nursing, social care colleagues and the out of hours REACT, admission prevention and discharge to assess teams. This is an opportunity to work within a knowledgeable experienced team and wider MDT. You should be flexible, motivated and willing to work within a changing environment. We will provide support through in-service training and professional forums, Mandatory training, 1:1 and personal development meetings as well as clinical rolling skills training via the practice development facilitators. We facilitate students on training and have close working relationships with neighbouring community teams in Health and Social Care. Internal applicants will be offered on a secondment basis only. Previous applicants need not apply. https://sway.cloud.microsoft/3tndXp5oQxjhGyiT?ref=Link

• To provide high standard patient care in hospital settings and patients homes
• To ensure a more seamless flow for patient care between hospital and community settings, enabling patients to be cared for in their own home environment
• To provide supervision and support to more junior staff

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes. We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff. We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients. We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you. Find out about living and working here -www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPu7HphU8A